"Ban Ki Moon and the Secretary-General of the Pacific Islands Forum have recently claimed that serious sea level rise problems occur both in Tuvalu and Kiribati. This is what two misguided politicians may say. But what is the reality, we must ask. The answer is clear and straight forward: the is no sea level rise going on – at least for the last 18 years – either in Tuvalu or in Kiribati" - Dr Nils-Axel Mörner, former head of the Paleogeophysics and. Geodynamics department at Stockholm University in Sweden, and past president of the INQUA Commission on Sea Level Changes and Coastal Evolution, comments o0n claims of sea level rises in South Pacific.